May might be the merry month, but it’ll be a challenge to top April for sheer zaniness and the standards for pranksterism set by the Tea Partiers, that goofy gaggle of ragtag characters and Pinocchios prompted by FOX News pundits and AM radio’s own Humpty Dumpty, the Rushmeister. What a cast: NRA paranoids, white supremacists, Bush-leaguers, wingnuts, Walruses, Carpenters and Chicken Littles. When local-boy Jay Bozievich revealed the event as GOP political theater, with his partisan attack on Rep. Peter DeFazio, the curtain came open. Bozievich shoulda worn an oversized top hat instead of a red coat so we could tell if he was playing the Wiz of Oz or the Mad Hatter. Strange guy: touts himself a Libertarian while periodically running for public office, hates all forms of government while drawing his paycheck from EWEB, a publicly owned utility. Predictable, maybe, for a guy who slurps his political and economic tea from the cracked pot of Ayn Rand’s fables.

Apparently the Partiers had planned May Day attacks on immigrants but were diverted by swine flu fears, but surely they’ll be back on the block and in full regalia — even if a bit confused on colors —for Fourth of July. What fun. Just a passing thought, and I hope someone will get back to me on this: With all those folks threatening armed overthrow of Dictator Obama, did Homeland Security attend? When Partiers’ antics slowed traffic into the post office, did anyone from Eugene Police Department cuff and Taser an offender? And with all those costumed GOPers — same folks who just brought us eight years of war, torture, and financial lunacy — does anybody know the final identity of the Dormouse?

Back on this side of the looking-glass, Mole and I have sussed some merry wines for May, ready to pour with the cornucopia of good stuff flowing into our markets from local farmers and growers:

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